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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
1988
Online ISBN:
9780511598210
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598210
Subjects:
Buddhism and Eastern Religions, History, Religion, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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Book description

This book examines the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate from Hinduism. As a result, Buddha emerged from a realm of myth and was addressed as a historical figure. Almond's exploration of British interpretations of Buddhism - of its founder, its doctrines, its ethics, its social practices, its truth and value - illuminates more than the various aspects of Buddhist culture: it sheds light on the Victorian society making these judgements.

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